Learning outcomes
• Develop practical classroom skills to teach foreign languages via new technologies, digital resources. Support development of digital skills and media literacy, increase capacity to trigger changes in terms of modernization using ICT when learning languages.
• Gain techniques for working in linguistically heterogeneous classrooms with regards to inclusive approach, promote intercultural awareness.
• Generate ready‐to‐use materials and ideas to support a school or organisational development in the field of innovative language teaching with regards to interdisciplinary and holistic approach.
• Enrich communication skills, improve foreign language competencies, broaden professional vocabulary, promote EU’s broad linguistic diversity.
• Develop relevant, high-level skills such as creativity, critical thinking, metacognition and other key competencies through new teaching methods, enhance the good quality of mainstream education.
• Learn to motivate, guide and effectively assess to reduce low achievement in basic competencies, promote peer exchange and active participation within the education.
• Revise and develop personal and professional competences, build confidence in using different methods (CLIL, gamification, etc.) in classrooms and teaching through a foreign language.
• Meet colleagues of different nationalities within the EU, engage in a cross-cultural learning experience, exchange ideas and build a network for future international cooperation.
• Gain a broader understanding of practices, policies and systems of education in different countries, cultivate mutual respect, intercultural awareness and embed common educational and training values.
• Enrich communication skills, improve foreign language competencies, broaden professional vocabulary.
For example, the following topics about student motivation will be discussed:
- How do I explain grammar in a comprehensive and interesting way? How do I motivate students to actively learn grammar?
- How do I help students to read more effectively? How do I actively motivate students to read?
- What exercises are there to improve students' listening comprehension? How do I motivate students to actively listen?
- What exercises can be done to improve students' speech skills? How do I actively motivate students to speak?
- Which exercises improve the students’ pronunciation? How do I motivate students to actively work on their pronunciation?
- Teacher: Olga Sciuchina